An early film by the great director Almodovar. I just love the scene with Antonio Banderas with his legs in the air saying "Easy. I've never done this before"! Enjoy Regards, La ley del deseo : Law of Desire (1987) - Pedro Almodóvar Studio - El Deseo S.A. Director:Pedro Almodóvar Writer:Pedro Almodóvar (screenplay and story) Genre:Comedy, Drama, Romance Plot:A film makers sexual disorientation jepordizes his latest project Runtime:102 min Country:Spain Language:Spanish Subtitles:English (hard coded) Further Info:See ScreenShots Cast (Cast overview, first billed only) Eusebio Poncela ... Pablo Quintero Carmen Maura ... Tina Quintero Antonio Banderas ... Antonio Benítez Miguel Molina ... Juan Bermúdez Fernando Guillén ... Inspector de policía Manuela Velasco ... Ada, niña Nacho Martínez ... Doctor Martín Bibiana Fernández ... Ada - madre (as Bibí Andersen) Helga Liné ... Madre de Antonio Germán Cobos ... El Cura Fernando Guillén Cuervo ... Policía, chico Marta Fernández Muro ... Una Groupi Lupe Barrado ... Enfermera Alfonso Vallejo ... Sargento Maruchi León ... Hermana de Juan Plot In what has now customarily become known as the New Queer Cinema, Almodovar's "Law of Desire" must be seen as a landmark film. Opening with a naked man masturbating and being guided through the motions by the disembodied voice of 'the director', this turns out to be something of a red-herring, though it does establish that the film's central character is a director, (Almodovar?) , and that he is gay. What follows is a teasing Hitchcockain menage-a-trois murder yarn, (not mystery), in which the homosexuality of the protagonists is very much to the fore and is hardly seen as 'an issue', (a major breakthrough in what was a mainstream Spanish movie of its day). Indeed "Law of Desire" was the film which really established Almodovar internationally and while gay-themed movies were finally making their mark in 1987 few were quite as explicitly erotic or as pleasurably in-your-face as this. Its cast was largely made up of what only be described as players from Almodovar's stock company and in a fine cast Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura are the stand-outs; he as a pathologically disturbed 'fan' whose obsession with Eusebio Puncela's director leads to murder and she as the director's transsexual 'sister', a deliriously giddy performance and yet played mostly 'straight' by Maura. If not quite as deep as Almodovar's later movies there is nevertheless much to enjoy here, (and although dealing with tragic issues Almodovar teases out the black comedy for all its worth). Now, of course, a great deal of the fun is in slotting the film into the Almodovar canon and seeing exactly where it fits in relation to the movies that followed it. IMDB Link Code http://www.imdb. com/title/ tt0093412/ Links Code http://hotfile. com/dl/36623114/ 9979a3f/La_ Ley_Del_Deseo_ -_1987_-_ Almodovar. avi.001 http://hotfile. com/dl/36623251/ fbe419a/La_ Ley_Del_Deseo_ -_1987_-_ Almodovar. avi.002 http://hotfile. com/dl/36623322/ 303faa3/La_ Ley_Del_Deseo_ -_1987_-_ Almodovar. avi.003 http://hotfile. com/dl/36623435/ 2725f76/La_ Ley_Del_Deseo_ -_1987_-_ Almodovar. avi.004 http://hotfile. com/dl/36623530/ 0db144b/La_ Ley_Del_Deseo_ -_1987_-_ Almodovar. avi.005
